Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.

If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.

There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.